Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

It beggars belief that the coalition today not just voted against a motion that says that this place will not accept the vilification of refugees and asylum seekers—that is what the motion said—that the coalition cannot even accept that. Rather than taking the approach that in this place, as elected members of parliament, we should be promoting the positive contributions that migrant communities make—whether they be refugees, whether they be people who have moved here because of family ties, whether they have come for work. These people have made a contribution to this country. Yet all we continue to hear from the coalition, right down to when they vote on this motion, is more nastiness, more cruelty and more lies.